CSS drop-caps: Really do work!

Posted on June 17, 2010

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I recently read two interesting articles about drop caps in CSS. Brilliant, it actually works on IE and FF (except IE 6.0!). See the articles bookmarked in the resources section for other cool selectors, like p:first-child:first-line

The HTML

<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Mauris tristique lobortis orci ac lacinia.
Fusce eu purus eget diam vehicula auctor nec eu elit.
Morbi consequat facilisis orci vel malesuada.
Donec ultrices molestie sollicitudin. Aliquam pharetra libero enim.
Donec et suscipit massa. Donec dui odio, dignissim non sodales et, tincidunt a sapien.
Phasellus elit nibh, adipiscing sed blandit vel, interdum et arcu.
</p>

The CSS

<style>
body{background-color:#333; color: #fff}
p{font-family: Rockwell Condensed; font-size:32px}
p:first-child:first-letter
{ float: left; color: #fc0; font-size: 90px;
 line-height: 40px; padding-top: 4px;
padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 3px;  }
</style>

The Result

The Result

The Result

Resources

  • http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/drop-caps/
  • http://pixelspread.com/blog/324/easy-drop-caps
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